CrushAlot wrote:nixluva wrote:fishmike wrote:nixluva wrote:fishmike wrote:If we dont trade picks and have a guy with a brain drafting every year it's a start.
IMO it's the most important part of building a contender. After you establish the core talent and identity of your team the final moves to sign a top FA are made so much easier. The most important hire Phil made was his top scout and no matter what people say Phil did what he said he would when it came to building a Future Component to this team and established a foundation to build on.
Gaines staying on should give every fan some comfort.
This roster is prime for another Melo type of trade. Seeing is believing. If Mill's focus is to build a young roster great. If they value the draft and work that every year great. If they work the overseas market even better.Who in this organization is the key talent evaluator? Who is the key roster builder? Who decided that Hardaway is a sensible $18mm a year gamble? (he probably is)
I think as a group the Knicks have enough guys who have good basketball minds. They all gave opinions to Phil on what should be done and I'm sure Mills is executing what he feels was the best of those suggestions.
Phil did in fact nurture this Front Office whether people like it or not. These guys have his plans as well their own ideas. The guys that are left all have some experience in the room on these decisions. They've been together for years now.
He was the only guy that was ever given the power to change the front office. He knew exactly what he wanted to do with the coaching staff. It would have been interesting if Kerr took the job in NY. His strength eas being a coach. it is too bad that he didn't have an effective front office guy in his inner circle. I don't think he nurtured the front office. His trades and signings generally were bad. You could make a case that he emphasized scouting but that was also present with Grunwald ( Cope, Prigs, Moz).
I think any team given enough picks can draft well and bring in young talent.
The thing with Jackson, he was the only one with the stature to allow for it to happen on his watch without getting thrown out the room.
Right before Jackson came to the Knicks, they had just traded away two draft picks.
There has been a clear philosiphy change by Mills since the Jackson era.
I think he made a big impact on how they look at players and how they want to build a team.
If he hadn't made it a pissing contest with Melo, and he hadn't tried to publicly respond to KP's action, I think he still has a job. No owner wants to have a president that somehow finds a way to get into a pissing contest with BOTH of his stars. They are literally doing exactly what was planned and they let him make the draft choices. If they thought he couldn't make sound decisions or his plans were all wrong, they would have cleaned house on coaching, and removed Gaines and not let Phil draft this year. To me this was all done to appease two things. One to get Melo to sign off on a trade. So Melo doesn't look like he lost to Phil. Now Melo's just moving on. Totally different story and Melo seems far more cooperative without Phil. Second to appease KP's camp. They clearly had an issue with Jackson as well.
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